Reporting under the LSE plc CIO organisation, the Senior Project Manager is responsible for mobilising and driving projects within the FX Technology Modernisation programme.

This workstream is a key deliverable within FX, charged with significantly reducing technical debt and increasing resilience across the FX Technology infrastructure.

• Mobilise and managing projects within the FX Technology Modernisation programme, delivering on the following specific deliverables:
  • FXall into Workspace – Greenfield Migration
  • Integrated Standardisation Suite
  • GigaSpaces upgrade
  • Tableau Upgrade (to Cloud)

• Manage cost, time and resources, including active rolling monthly budget forecasts.
• Build, agree, socialise and manage detailed end-to-end plans for 2025-2028, capturing cost, resources requirements and documenting inter-dependencies between deliverables.
• Ensure planning ensures the live service is not negatively impacted for the FX Business and Clients as changes to the FX infrastructure are rolled out.
• Mobilise appropriate governance (SteerCo / Working Groups) to ensure there is transparency and accountability across the stakeholder community.
• Define and report on progress and achievement of key milestones.
• Clearly define roles, responsibilities, and identify / address areas of concern.
• Manage issues and risks, raising as appropriate to the FX Technology Modernisation SteerCo and FX Portfolio Board.
• Continually manage dependencies, ensuring smooth and timely delivery of key milestones.
• Work with key Engineering functions throughout the project lifecycle to ensure delivery.
• Investment planning for future projects including scope, resourcing and budgeting
• Represent projects at the FX Technology Modernisation SteerCo, providing the following updates:
  • Report on progress made and plans for the next reporting period.
  • RAG status
  • Return to Green plans
  • Key risks and issues
  • Financial position
• Manage financials, i.e.:
  • Create and maintain the 2025 - 2028 forecasts
  • Track actuals and adjust accordingly to ensure projects remain in budget
• Maintain Clarity, i.e.:
  • Milestones
  • Risks / Issues
  • Status updates
  • Cost plans
• Create and maintain project artefacts, ensuring compliance to LSEG’s Change Framework.

Essential

• A strong product knowledge of FX
• Previous experience in the management of complex technical projects
• Experience of developing, implementing and delivering projects in highly matrixed and fast paced businesses
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office, including MS Project
• Excellent knowledge of Clarity
• Excellent at managing and influencing a wide network of partners, including senior management up to CIO level
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of financial management, risk, and project management methodologies
• Excellent documentation skills; ability to create high quality steering committee materials
• More than 10 years of project experience
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Resilient – outcome and delivery focused with the ability to operate in a sophisticated environment
• Energetic & driven - a self-starter, with a can-do attitude, outcome focussed, and charge change with energy and drive that inspires others
   

Desirable

• Project Management qualifications, e.g. Prince2 / PMP / etc.
• Previous experience in delivering regulatory programmes

Benefits:

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days’ holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events
• All LSEG colleagues with at least one year’s continuous service, who become parents, are now entitled to at least 26 weeks’ paid leave, and the option to return to work on a phased basis, in relation with specific company’s policy and guidelines

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Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

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